markedadjective
uk/mɑːkt/us/mɑːrkt/A marked change or difference in behaviour or in a situation is very obvious or noticeable:
There was a marked improvement in my health when I gave up smoking.
Unemployment has fallen again, although the change is less marked than last month.
The president spoke with passion for an hour, in marked contrast to his subdued address yesterday.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Apparent and obvious
- apparent
- be (as) plain as the nose on your face idiom
- be (right) under your nose idiom
- be etched somewhere idiom
- be writ large idiom
- leap out at sb
- linear
- loud
- loud and clear idiom
- manifest
- manifestly
- naked
- nose
- recognizable
- self-evident
- shine
- shine out
- shine through
- speaks for itself idiom
- stark
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markedly
adverb uk/ˈmɑː.kɪd.li/us/ˈmɑːr.kɪd.li/
Eye-witness accounts of the fighting differ markedly from police reports of what happened.